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...with spears and axes. Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid as "the best solution" for South Africa's racial troubles...
...also has a paw in Mideast Airlines, in Beirut's St. Georges and Phoenicia hotels, and in a dozen trading companies that sell everything from Land Rovers to soft drinks. In just a decade, CAT's yearly gross has soared from $5 million to $60 million and its profits from almost nothing to $1.5 million a year...
...year. But no matter how many were killed, there was always the big one that got away. In New Mexico his name was Lobo, and Lobo was a brute half again as big as he had any natural right to be, with a roar like a lion and a paw like a bear and a cunning that made hunters old before their time. His legend still lives in the great Southwest, lives in every boy who ever read Lobo, The King of Currumpaw by Ernest Thompson Seton. Now it lives in something more than full color and something less than...
...machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop was ready to close. Concluded Izvestia: "If you want to look beautiful, you must suffer...
...time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage can or swatting somebody in the head. Like TV's cartoon Yogi Bear, the beasts at Yellowstone are "smarter than the average bear": they can open automobile doors, and some have been known to slip a paw through a small ventilator window of a car and open the door from the inside. At Yellowstone recently, a good-sized black bear ambled up to a picnic table where two couples were dining. Three of the people quickly withdrew, but the hostess stayed put. "I cooked this breakfast," cried she angrily...